Sunshade.



G. I. HOWARD.

SUNSHADE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 27, 1909.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

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SUNSHADE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

Application filed August 27, 1909. Serial No. 514,959.

To all whom it may concern:

l3e it known that I, CORA I. HOWARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lynchburg. in the county of Campbell and State of Virginia,have invented new and useful Improvenunits in Sunshades, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The primary purpose of the present invention is to devise a protectorfor shading the face from the rays of the sun when drying hair aftershampooing or when subjecting the hair and scalp to a sun bath.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide a protector, which maybe readily adapted to the head and which will be lightand provide for achange of cover when necessary for cleanliness or caprice of the user.

The invention consists of the novel features, details of constructionand combination of parts, which hereinafter will be more particularlyset forth, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out inthe appended claim.

Referring to the drawing. forming a part of the specification, Figure lis a perspective view, showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2is a top plan view of the sun shade or protector, a part of the coverbeing broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig.2.

The device comprises a frame and a cover, the frame being constructed ofany light material, such as covered wire, commonly employed in themanufacture of hat frames. The cover may be of any light textile and isprovided with a. draw string or tape to ad mit of adjusting the deviceto the size of the head of the user.

The frame, as shown in Fig. 2, is approximately of circular outline andis split in its circumferential leiwth to admit of contracting orexpanding the protector when adapting the same to the size of the head.As shown the frame comprises a plurality of concentric wires 1 and tiewires 2. The concentric wires 1 are arranged approximately in parallelposition and there may be as many tie wires 2 as found expedient inorder to produce a frame of sufficient stiffness to retain its shapewithout producing a weighted or expensive structure. The frame, it willbe observed, is of skeleton form and exceedingly light and may bereadily contracted or expanded.

The cover 3 is of textile and is. of annular form having a splitcorresponding to the split in the frame, so that both the cover and theframe may be enlarged or contracted as required to meet the size of thehead of the person using the article. A hem or tuck 4 is provided at theinner edge of the casing or cover and receives a draw string or tape 5,the ends of which are sutlieiently long to enable a grip being hadthereon when adapting the device to the head of the user.

In some respects the device resembles a crownless hat and may be used inthe capacity of a hat when desired. As a sun shade or protector forpreventing sunburn or tan when drying the hair or subjecting the same toa sun bath, the device appears when worn about as shown in Fig. 1., thetop of the head projecting above the device and the hair flowingthereover and covering the space formed between the ends both of theframe and cover. Inasmuch as the cover is liable to soil the advantageof having the same readily detachable is apparent. Moreover, one styleor design of cover may be substituted for another in the event of thedevice being used in the capacity of a hat. The draw string 5 serves thetwofold office of securing the cover or casing to the frame and holdingthe device upon the head, it being understood that the size of theprotector when adjusted is maintained by tying the loose endsof thestring 5 in a bow knotor other well known manner.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the artto which the invention appcrtains, and while I have described theprinciple of operation of the invention. together with the device whichI now consider to be the embodiment thereof, I desire to have itunderstood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that suchchanges may be made when desired as are within the scope of the claimappended hereto.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new, is

A protector for the head comprising a flat frame of annular formradially split at a point in its circumferential length and comprising aseries of concentric Wires and radially disposed tie wires connectingthe concentric Wires, said zinnuiar frame being adapted to be contractedor expanded, a textile covering of annular form adapted to receive theannular frame and inclose the same, said covering having a hem at itsinner edge and a draw string passing through 7 said hem and adapted tocontract the frame and secure the same in the desired contract- Intestimony whereof I afiix' my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CORA I. HOWARD. Witnesses R. B. Goobn, C. E. HOWARD.

